Ryan Bloom wrote: > Why do your web servers rely on DNS at all? If your config file doesn't > specify HostNameLookup on, and you always use dotted quad notation, the > server shouldn't ever use the DNS server. If it does, I would consider > that a showstopper. > we don't do hostname lookup on our new platform, but on our old one we do (and we have to, as it's too hard to change all the log-processing scripts)
the other problem is the proxy code does a DNS lookup on each request. we can't use a quad notation for a couple of reasons, mainly ease of administration, and using round robin DNS. so removing the DNS request itself is out of the question. > Ryan > > ---------------------------------------------- > Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 645 Howard St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > San Francisco, CA > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ian Holsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:54 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [RFC] -- adding DNS timeout/retry directives to the core >> >>we got bit by this on one of our high-load development servers. >>the DNS server hung, and all the webserver ground to a halt. >> >>in 1.3 we had a custom module which tweaked the resolver's >>retransmission time interval & #times to retransmit options >>(in the global structure _res on most unixes) >> >> >>now the questions.. >> is this kind of thing available on win32/os2/beos etc? >> should this be a APR-function of just a auto-conf option? >> >>cheers >>Ian >> > >
